Motion quality evaluation of target-reaching movement of index finger

摘要

This paper proposes a set of objective and quantitative human motion evaluation indices, among which the index of difficulty and index of performance are introduced as the general indices for the quality measure of 2-D target-to-target movement. As an example, the target-reaching movement of index finger, which is a basic functional action of index finger in the daily life of human beings, were experimentally investigated. In the experiment five healthy male subjects were asked to perform three target-reaching movement tasks which have different indices of difficulty. All movements were recorded by a 3-D motion analysis system. Later, their motion qualities were measured with these evaluation metrics. The results showed that these indices are reasonable and have potential applications to biomedical engineering.